While St. Petersburg’s MLK Dream Big Weekend does not fill local hotels like the four-day Reggae Rise Up music festival, it will now receive the same tourism funding.
Pinellas County Commissioners unanimously agreed to waive Elite Event criteria for the city’s celebrations honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The program awards project funding according to an event’s impact on the local tourism economy.
Due to its marketing and economic impact score not meeting program criteria, the Tourist Development Council (TDC) did not include Dream Big Weekend in its five funding tiers. Read more at www.stpetecatalyst.com.
